Allow me to introduce myself..

I was born in Nottingham in 1965, and was always the kid with a paint brush, felt-tips, or crayons in hand, I would paint/draw on anything I could find, boxes, old rolls of wallpaper, scrap paper etc or I would be making things from boxes, paper, wood, sticky black plastic, yes I was a real 'Blue Peter kid'.
At school Art was my favourite subject and I left school with a host of CSE's and my only O'level, which of course was in art!

Art then took a back seat while I enjoyed life, I did a range of different jobs, settling in the end as a Nail Technician,

In 1988 my late granddad gave me some oil paints, and my love of painting was reborn. I soon moved on to Acrylics, due to is faster drying time.

I then discovered I had talent for painting animals from photos.

In 1991 'Your Horse' magazine ran a short story competition, with the winner, getting a portrait done by me.

My daughter came along in 1993, so the painting took a back seat again, with me only finding time to do the odd commission.

As for my love of animals, well they have always featured in my life, from my first dog, when I was 3, a Jack Russell called 'Pip', to the pet rabbits most kids have, my first horse 'Cindy' who I sadly lost in a traffic accident,

Then in 2004 we moved to Spain, to a beautiful farmhouse, with enough land for my horses, plus all the other animals. I have, 2 dogs, a Spanish Mastiff and a Shetland sheepdog, a few rescue cats, rabbits and of course the chickens.

We are set in a National Park, so the horse riding is wonderful, this has given me time to take up my passion again.

So I now feel I am 'living the dream'